School of Information –

(Current Student Section)

By:Amit Sharma | inf 385e

Fall 2005 - iSchool, UT- Austin

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

Website available at:

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

Tools used: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Design & Coding) Microsoft Visio 2003 (Wireframes) Text Editor – Notepad (Javascript) Browsers - Mozilla Firefox , Internet Explorer (Display)

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

Main Page (Before)

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

Main Page ( After )

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

Site Statistics

Total No. of Pages : 17

Validation Results (http://validator.w3.org) :

Validated : 11

Not validated : 06

(due to URL on pages which were not recognized by w3.validator)

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

Graphics and Logos used

University of Texas at Austin

School of Information Logo

Images taken from Personal Camera & iSchool Site

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/main.html

Changed Features (1)Course Description (Before)

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

Changed Features (1)

Course Description (After)

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/coursedescription.htm

Changed Features (2)Courses division (based on Academic Tracks)

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/library.htm

New Features (1)

iSpace ( One stop for all information needs)

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/ispace.htm

New Features (2)

My Courses Page

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/yourcourses.htm

Design Decisions

Dividing the main page according to specified users. Labels ( e.g. iSpace, iZone, iPlace, my Courses). No. of Levels for website. Content to include in iSpace. Number of images on a single web page. Division of courses by Academic Tracks.

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

Problems Faced (1)

BrowsersMozilla Firefox Internet Explorer 6.0

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/courses.html

Problems Faced (2)

Tools don’t behave the way you expect (Dreamweaver producing extra code).

Logo of iSchool ( a small file which on expanding produces blurriness in text).

Trade off between Size Vs Mission of site.

How to make users enter and visit the site again

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

References

Rosenfeld, L. & Morville, P. (2002). Information architecture for the world wide Web, 2nd edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Van Duyne, D., Landay, J. A., & Hong, J. I. (2003). Design of sites: patterns, principles, and processes for crafting a customer-centered Web experience. Boston, MA: Addison -Wesley, Inc.

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

Thank You

Website address: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~amit/main.html

- Amit Sharma